Jacob

“Lost” closed off a bizarre season of time-travel with a two-hour episode that was action-packed and intriguing, but one that, at times, also felt overstuffed and convoluted.

The big news is that we finally got to meet Jacob, the island’s mysterious spiritual leader. And, boy, what a busy guy he has been. Through a series of mind-blowing flashbacks, we see how he made contact with our castaways long before they got to the island. He dropped in on Kate and Sawyer when they were little tykes; he was there when Locke was pushed though that high-rise window; he even crashed Jin and Sun’s wedding! (Sun: “Who was that? Jin: “I don’t know, but his Korean is excellent.”)

The episode also offered a hellacious fight between Jack and Sawyer, a sweet and humorous reunion with Rose and Bernard, a fatal confrontation between Locke and Ben vs. Jacob, a nasty gunshot wound for Sayid, a quick ride on a submarine and the revelation that Locke is still a corpse (Or is that a body-double? … Or Jacob’s former companion, Fred?).

Oh yeah, and in the end, a big bomb went off.

Regarding the latter, we learned earlier that Jack — acting on info from Faraday — had a plan to detonate the H-bomb as a means to shake up the island’s weird electromagnetic field that caused the original plane crash.

It finally did happen, but not before the fisticuffs between Jack and Sawyer and a calamitous sequence of events that had Jack tossing the bomb down a long mine shaft and the magnetic field sucking all sorts of things into that mine shaft, including a horrified Juliet. Naturally, the bomb didn’t go off at first and so Juliet, making the ultimate sacrifice, whacks it with a rock and BLAMMO! — fade to white and see you in Janauary.

So what did you think of the finale? Did it give you a better sense of where things are headed for the final season? Or is your brain crying out for more Tylenol?